Boxted, Suffolk
| Boxted | |
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 All Saints, Boxted. Credit: Bob Jones | |
  Boxted Location within Suffolk | |
| Population | 120 (2001)[1] |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Bury St Edmonds |
| Postcode district | IP29 |
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Boxted is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England. Located around 8 miles (13 km) north of Sudbury, in 2005 it had a population of 120. From the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Somerton.
According to Eilert Ekwall, the meaning of the village name is place where box grow. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book, at which time it had a population of 25.
Fenstead End
Fenstead End is a hamlet in the civil parish of Boxted, in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England.[2] The settlement appears in the Domesday Book as Finesteda when its inventory was:[3]
- Hundred — Babergh
- Population — 4 households comprising 1 villager, 2 smallholders, 5 slaves.
- Value — £5
- Ploughland — 5 lord's plough teams
- Meadow — 10 acres
- Woodland — 20 pigs
- Livestock in 1066 — 3 cattle, 1 horse
- Lord in 1066 — Uhtred
- Overlord in 1066 — Edgar of Houghton
References
- ^ Estimates of Total Population of Areas in Suffolk Archived December 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Suffolk County Council
- ^ Philip's Street Atlas Suffolk, 2007 edition, p76
- ^ Fenstead, Open Domesday, archived from the original on 4 October 2013, retrieved 4 February 2016
Further reading
Karl Inge Sandred (1963), English place-names in -stead, Uppsala University, pp. 100, 187
See also
External links
Media related to Boxted, Suffolk at Wikimedia Commons
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